hey everybody sam here and angela and welcome to our channel welcome to the next part of the
building of sam's workshop for our workshop as was previously mentioned in the other videos
speaking of the other videos if you haven't seen them there's a link to the playlist down below we
have our foundation video our floor framing and decking video and that brings us to this video
which is framing the walls oh yeah this should go quick i hope because framing is always fun because
it does go quick generally so hopefully i didn't jinx ourselves let's hope not otherwise let's go
for wall framing i'm going to be using standard 2x4 studs i will be cutting them to a total
length of seven foot six inches to allow enough length overall once we add the single bottom plate
the two top plates and then have enough for the siding to cover the plywood in the end i'm going
to be framing the walls on 24 inches on center which is not very common with building however
for storage sheds or workshops of this type and even residential construction 24 inches on center
has been found to be plenty adequate for support structures you're able to maintain rigidity of the
structure and not use as much material i have my foldable saw horses here we're ready to go ahead
and set ourselves up a portable work station right here in the driveway next to the minivan so we can
go ahead and cut all of our studs to length then we'll carry them put them on the floor
and start framing everything out there to raise the walls you're going to be cutting these no
you're not i'll measure i don't cut see this way we can pick the boards up okay and over
cool
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what i'm going to do next is with these two boards together they are the top and bottom plates of
this wall i'm going to measure out and put the marks for my studs on these pieces then i'll
separate them and we'll have the marks for our studs just to line it up and nail it all together
we're going to be using more three inch long galvanized ring shank nails with our
paslod cordless nailer we don't have to use galvanized for this kind of framing
but the box comes in a thousand nails i didn't use a thousand for the floor
so i'm just using what i have on hand anyway it's fine so we'll do our marks and we'll start framing
so for this wall we have an inch and a half for our outside studs
so i put a line and then an x and now we're going to space these 24 inches on center
so i'm going to go down to 24 and then come back three quarters of an inch put a mark
and then x x that puts this stud centered at 24 inches
so we'll go down 2 4 6 8 10 feet all along the length of this board
so
it looked good
so
i'm going to frame up what i've heard called a california corner what this
is is you have your normal wall stud and you put another one flat right beside it
that way when this wall gets stood up and you put your other wall against it
you have a nailer inside for you to attach any kind of wall covering to so i don't know
if it's really a california corner but that's what i've heard so that's what i just called it
so
okay
so
um you like a put that up there and tell me when it's plumb
or you pull it till it's plumb okay it's not good yeah
it's huge
okay happy dude on the stud not the california stuff
there you have it we have one long wall framed up it went super quick i don't know the total
time but it was shorter than what i would have thought the total time would have been so there
you go we have our angle diagonal braces in place holding the wall perfectly plumb
and it's totally nailed to the floor and the two walls are joined together in the middle
so we are ready to go ahead and go back cut some more studs
and start framing up our shorter end walls the short walls are 12 feet total although
the framing is a little bit less because you know you got your back wall front wall taking a little
bit of thickness either way should be pretty easy to do so quit yapping start working right
since this wall that we're framing up is going to go kind of on the inside of the long wall i mean
you kind of see how we did the one already we're going to use a technique or a term called burning
we're going to burn three and a half inches what that means is as we measure to mark our stud
location we're going to hang the tape measure over three and a half inches the reason we're doing
that is because once it's in place on the building that three and a half inch burn is the actual
other wall's framing thickness that's important so that you maintain your stud alignment for
your siding and interior spacing but mostly your siding so we're going to burn three and a half
inches and then mark the studs on this top bottom plate and we'll frame up our second short wall
now
as we begin to frame and raise this final section of the wall i want to address the elephant
on the workshop and that elephant is the one that's asking um sam where's your doorway uh
how you getting outside of your workshop what are you thinking my reasoning for doing that is
that in my head at least it's going to be easier just to go back and cut and place the doorway
exactly where i want frame up my headers my jack studs and everything of the sort at that time
i also want to be 100 sure that i want the door where i think i'm going to put it so doing this
now allows me to get the walls framed to keep going on with the project and allows me time
to really make sure that i'm putting the door exactly where i want for the overall layout
and flow of the workshop so that's sam's reasons otherwise normally if you're doing off blueprints
or i mean if you're doing this and you know exactly what you want you would frame your
doorway and your headers while it's on the floor and then raise it and be done so i'm a little bit
unconventional in that sense but i'm also unconventional in a lot of sense too aren't i
all right everybody welcome back today's name of the game okay at least the name of the game
for right now is to do the top plates on the walls uh you always want to do two of them so
i'm carrying over two eight foot two by fours and i'm gonna go ahead and put on this short wall
to overlap the long wall and then i'll cut off the excess whenever i'm done
so the trick is to just line up and make sure you're flush on your front side
and your side side and then i'm going to use the three inch long nails and nail it in place
so there are two eight foot two by fours did the side plus about four feet on the long
wall now i'm carrying up a ten foot long two by four to keep working my way around
the top perimeter and put everything in place
circular saw
all right just in case what i said earlier doesn't make sense i'm gonna
shoot a quick video with my phone so the walls by themselves look like this at the top joint
you have one wall overlapping and the other kind of butts up next to it to make a stronger joint
you take your top plate and you overlap that it kind of locks everything together that way
so whenever you do a double top plate you want to make sure you overlap your joints
and it helps lock everything together so that's what's meant by a double top plate
i'm using my off cut to start this row and then my ten foot piece will go at least completely
over top of the doorway make sure two four yes and go completely across the doorway
and almost spin all the way to the other side
i feel like i'm just talking to myself up here like an absolute schizophrenic person
and this is why we do this oh cool great idea guys nobody's up here with me
that one's shot out i guarantee it god ugliness can't have nothing this is why
i can't have nice things you know what wobby sabby no that's terrible
there we go double top plate is done it took two ten foot long two by fours and one two three four
eight footers not bad overall now we can start framing up the roof i think yeah that'll be fun
i have to say it looks a lot bigger than i thought it would be that's good it is when we started
a couple you know back when we started doing the floor framing and we just saw the skids i
was like oh man i don't know it's not that big it looks bigger now i'm looking like because you can
walk in it you can see there's going to be enough room for all your stuff yep well my stuff plus a
laundry station yes because in that interim while we're living homeless in our camper while our home
is being moved to our property that is going to be the laundry room laundry station as well because
we can dirty some clothes like nobody's business well we have two little feral boys that love to
play in the mud and there is a lot here yep there is well it's a season of mud it's the winter time
that's what that's what we have we don't have snow we have mud well guys you have any questions
anything i didn't cover very well in this video or just in general things you want to say leave
us a comment down below otherwise we'll see you guys next time on one of the homesteads see you
what you bye there what you doing you popping the mud off i am
now you are what are you doing i'm wiping the mud off my shoes welcome to mud season
guys we'll see you guys next time on one of the homesteads see ya
bye i feel like i've said that like three or four times today that's because your
husband's we've shot like three or four videos today double triple quadruple dip in the chip